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“@WhiteHouse Republicans have now had more than TWELVE YEARS to come up with a better plan and FAILED. They don’t have a clue. #TRUTH #SaveTheACA #MedicareForAll #Medicare4All”

The Trump approach to healthcare: Break it and figure out the rest later

Most presidents try to bring changes to policies they think aren’t working. Trump just tries to break things to give himself negotiating leverage. That’s what’s happening with Obamacare.

Forever Logical 🖖 on Twitter

“@WhiteHouse The percentage of Americans without health insurance is at its highest since 2014, and 7 million more Americans are uninsured now than when President Trump was elected. We should be working to expand access to affordable #healthcare, not cut it off.”

Trump health office lies to millions with fake reports and data

An office that is key to evaluating and implementing U.S. health care policy has been repeatedly pushing out bad information to aid Trump’s attack on Obamacare.

Trump’s quiet campaign to bring back preexisting conditions

The administration is waging a quiet regulatory war against Obamacare.

Life without Obamacare? Some reminders of what it was like

The Trump administration argued Monday that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional. But the good old pre-ACA days that Republicans want? They weren’t very good.

The Trump administration wants to troll through social media accounts to make sure that those receiving federal assistance aren’t enjoying their lives too much.

President Trump: ‘Nobody Knew Health Care Could Be So Complicated’

Actually everybody knew that. But not knowing it was the thing that held together his impossible promises.

Life in Florida without Medicaid expansion

For two years, Florida legislators have refused to expand Medicaid as envisioned under the Affordable Care Act. Their decision left an estimated 850,000 Floridians without healthcare insurance in the

North Texas teacher dies after getting the flu

The teacher was taken to the ICU on Friday. She died by Sunday morning.

Trump Administration Says States May Impose Work Requirements for Medicaid

Federal officials said they would support state efforts to require able-bodied adults to work as a condition of eligibility for Medicaid.

House Republicans eliminate funding for Children’s Health Insurance Program

House Republicans voted overwhelmingly to eliminate funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, after approving a White House budget plan. Representatives voted 210-206 — with 187 Democrats and 19 Republicans against — to rescind nearly $15 billion in unspent funding that had previ…

Trump’s ‘let it fail’ sums up why Republicans are losing on health care

The party in charge knows what it’s against. But after seven years of demagoguing about health-care reform, it still has no clue what it’s for.

The Republican party has taken "a wrong turn" under Donald Trump, according to three GOP challengers to the president, and is heading down the road to totalitarianism as states cancel primaries in an attempt to give Trump an unimpeded path to the nomination in 2020.

With John Bolton dismissed, Taliban peace talks a fiasco and a trade war with China, US foreign policy is ever more unstable and confrontational

It was, by all accounts, a furious row. Donald Trump was talking about relaxing sanctions on Iran and holding a summit with its president, Hassan Rouhani, at this month's UN general assembly in New York. John Bolton, his hawkish national security adviser, was dead against it and… [more]